General Native Vegetation Profile:
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Rivers, Floodplains and Levees | Creeklines and Secondary Floodplains |
Lunettes and Sand Ridges |
LANDFORM | Rivers, Floodplains and Levees | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Riverine Forest. | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | River Red Gum forest or woodland with understorey of herbs, sedges and grasses; includes weir pools and billabongs. Alluvial, heavy grey, brown or red clay soils. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Koondrook State Forest, Perricoota State Forest, Lower Thule Rd, Campbells Island State Forest. | |
TREES >8M | Acacia stenophylla | River Cooba |
Allocasuarina luehmannii | Bulloak | |
Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum | |
Eucalyptus largiflorens | Black Box | |
Eucalyptus microcarpa | Grey Box | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia pycnantha | Golden Wattle |
Acacia salicina | Cooba | |
Exocarpos strictus | Dwarf Cherry | |
Pittosporum angustifolium | Butterbush | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Cassinia sifton | Dolly Bush |
Dillwynia cinerascens | Grey Parrot-pea | |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush | |
Eutaxia microphylla s.s. | Mallee Bush-pea | |
GROUND COVERS | Lachnogrostis filiformis | Blown Grass |
Alternanthera denticulata s.s. | Lesser Joyweed | |
Amphibromus nervosus | Veined Swamp Wallaby-grass | |
Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Rytidosperma duttoniana | Brown back Wallaby Grass | |
Azolla filiculoides | Red Azolla | |
Brachyscome basaltica var. gracilis | Swamp Daisy | |
Xerochrysum bracteatum | Golden Everlasting | |
Calotis scapigera | Tufted Burr-daisy | |
Carex appressa | Tall Sedge | |
Carex tereticaulis | Rush Sedge | |
Centipeda cunninghamii | Common Sneezeweed | |
Chamaesyce drummondii | Flat Spurge | |
Cotula australis | Common Cotula | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Eleocharis acuta | Common Spike-rush | |
Juncus ingens | Giant Rush | |
Lipocarpha microcephala | Button Rush | |
Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
Myriophyllum papillosum | Water-milfoil | |
Oxalis perennans | Grassland Wood sorrel | |
Paspalidium jubiflorum | Warrego Summer-grass | |
Phragmites australis | Common Reed | |
Plantago cunninghamii | Sago weed | |
Poa fordeana | Sweet Swamp grass | |
Lobelia concolor | Poison Pratia | |
Ranunculus pumilio | Ferny Buttercup | |
Triglochin procerum spp. agg. | Water-ribbons | |
Vallisneria australis. | Eel-weed | |
Wahlenbergia fluminalis | River Bluebell |
LANDFORM | Creeklines and Secondary Floodplains | |
VEGETATION TYPE | Black Box Woodland. | |
GEOLOGY & SOILS | Black Box woodland with often sparse understorey of grasses or shrubs. Alluvial, heavy brown or grey clays, self-mulching or compact. |
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LOCATION EXAMPLE | Perricoota State Forest, Whymoul State Forest. | |
TREES >8M | Eucalyptus camaldulensis | River Red Gum |
Eucalyptus largiflorens | Black Box | |
Eucalyptus microcarpa | Grey Box | |
SHRUBS & SMALL TREES 2 – 8m | Acacia salicina | Cooba |
Atriplex nummularia | Old man Saltbush | |
Chenopodium nitrariaceum | Nitre Goosefoot | |
Melaleuca lanceolata | Moonah | |
Duma florulenta | Lignum | |
Pittosporum angustifolium | Butterbush | |
LOW SHRUBS <2m |
Enchylaena tomentosa | Ruby Saltbush |
Rhagodia spinescens | Thorny Saltbush | |
GROUND COVERS | Lachnogrostis filiformis | Blown Grass |
Amphibromus nervosus | Veined Swamp Wallaby-grass | |
Atriplex semibaccata | Creeping Saltbush | |
Rytidosperma caespitosa | White top | |
Boerhavia dominii | Tar Vine | |
Brachyscome basaltica var. gracilis | Swamp Daisy | |
Calostemma purpureum | Wilcannia Lily | |
Calotis scapigera | Tufted Burr-daisy | |
Einadia nutans subsp. nutans | Climbing Saltbush | |
Eryngium ovinum | Blue Devil | |
Maireana enchylaenoides | Wingless Fissure-weed | |
Marsilea drummondii | Common Nardoo | |
Poa fordeana | Sweet Swamp grass | |
Lobelia concolor | Poison Pratia | |
Stemodia florulenta | Blue Rod |